MARKO MILOSEVIC'S LETTER TO THE ORGANS OF THE
ICTY AND THE UNITED NATIONS REGARDING JUDGE PARKER'S INVESTIGATION INTO THE
DEATH OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
July 17, 2006

This is an open letter and is to be distributed to

The President of the ICTY

The Chairman of the Security Council of the OUN

The Secretary General of the OUN

It represents an official reaction of the family
of Slobodan Milosevic to the report of ICTY concerning the causes of his
death.

Mr. Parker,

I received your
report concerning the causes of my father’s sudden and
untimely death. Unfortunately, it is exactly as I expected it would be,
and as I warned your deputy, the French judge with whom I spoke in The Hague,
that it should not be.

First of all, I
must note that your investigation was not initiated because of “media
speculation that Slobodan Milosevic had been poisoned” as you put it. Your
report's continuous justifications before media are both inadequate and
insulting.

Although illegal,
the ICTY owes explanations to the family of the deceased, the Security Council
as the organ which founded ICTY, the General Assembly, the Secretary General,
and to the public.

Secondly, neither
we the family, nor the expert team of pathologists, which was familiar with my
father’s health and was given the findings of the Dutch team, ever alleged the
possibility of poisoning. To the contrary, I accepted the diagnosis of a heart
attack (infarction) from the moment I heard it in The Hague. I warned both your
deputy and the Dutch prosecutor not to vulgarize the investigation by setting-up
a "straw man" accusation such as a violent murder or poisoning. The lines you
have chosen to describe the “scene of crime” are naďve, vulgar and insulting.
The report itself, if made by an independent institution, would have been at the
very least disappointing. But, since it’s being issued by the Tribunal, the very
institution which had a monopoly over my father’s health during his time in UN
custody, it is shocking. It contains an unexpected number of contradictions. Its
contents and conclusions are absolutely unacceptable to the sane mind.

Even if we had
suspicions of poisoning, it would be pointless to try and prove them in
conditions where the only possible culprit is the investigator. It is as if an
accused committed a crime, leads the investigation, and comes to the expected
conclusion that he is innocent. An accused may defend himself, but it is quite
unusual that the accused himself leads the investigation, as was the case with
your investigation and your report.

Should I mention
the fact that the autopsy was conducted without the presence of the independent
expert team sent by our family, even though we insisted on it? Or that the
Russian doctors were denied the access to the body and the tissue samples? Or
that we have been denied his blood samples? Now it happens that the Dutch
medical institutions and doctors, which have already been gravely compromised in
the eyes of the public through their involvement with the ICTY Prosecution in
numerous manipulations with my father’s health, medical treatment, and
respective diagnosis, were the only ones to manage the toxicology tests and
announce their results?! Here I must remind you of my father's letter addressed
to the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in which he wrote just hours before
his death that he suspected he was being poisoned in the UNDU. So here we have a
situation where we are witnessing numerous speculations regarding his blood
samples, he expresses his worry about it, then he suddenly dies. Now comes this
mysterious autopsy conducted by the very same people that he accused in his last
hours, and they conclude that there was no poisoning. How credible does this
sound even to you Mr. Parker? It is a pity that I am not in a position to ask
Ms. Del Ponte an even simpler question – if he was ill, then why he wasn’t he
given medical treatment when he asked for it? And if he wasn’t ill, then why did
he die?

I understand that
the you have set-up this straw-man accusation of poisoning, and now by finding
that there was no poisoning you assert that the ICTY has been relieved of
all responsibility for my father's death. Nevertheless, an unquestionable truth
remains before the public, the image of my father addressing your so-called
"trial chamber" and asking to be allowed medical treatment, and the "presiding
judge" responding that he will not listen to him.

The question isn’t
whether or not my father was murdered or poisoned. The point is that a former
head of state, being held in UN custody, was gravely ill and constantly
complaining of his medical condition. His health condition was assessed many
times by medical experts as dire. He was denied adequate (if any) medical
treatment, and then he died. At the same time those who denied him treatment were
undeniably aware of what the consequences would be. He asked for provisional
release to receive medical treatment. Dr. Shumilina warned on November 6th
that his condition was so critical that he could die at any moment. Although you
claim in your report (among many other contradictions, which I will not quote by
number in this letter) that there was no suggestion by my father’s doctors that
cardiac surgery was needed, even in your own report, in paragraph 65., you
write:

(«On 20 December
2005 a formal motion was filed seeking Mr. Milošević’s provisional release to
enable medical treatment at the Bakoulev Scientific Centre for Cardiovascular
Surgery in Moscow. In addition to the reports of the three visiting doctors
from November, a further email of Dr Shumilina dated 19 December 2005 to an
assigned counsel for Mr. Milošević was relied on. In this email Dr Shumilina
recommended the following additional tests: a complex ultrasonic of the vascular
pathology, especially brachiocephal arteries and veins; echocardiography and
stress echocardiography; Holter monitoring and daily monitoring of the blood
pressure; “estimation” of the homeostasis: investigation of the brachiocephal
and coronary vessels with contrast media; and PEI (position-emission imaging) of
the brain and of the heart. Her email also indicated that endovascular or surgical
decompression of the right vertebral artery, the stenting of brachiocephal or
cardial arteries, carotid endarterectomy, or even bypass surgery may be
necessary to perform.»)

The guaranties had been
granted, and the ICTY ignored all of it. Obviously deliberately for they were
aware of all the facts, both general and subtle. So he died.

The Tribunal, and
everyone in charge, has committed a deliberate murder. They condemned him to
death on February 24th when they rejected his request for provisional
release, ignoring everything: his health condition, his rights, and the warnings
of his doctors, which unlike the jail physician hired by the ICTY, had both –
unquestionable competence and expertise, as well as his confidence. Ignoring
even the guarantees of The Russian Federation (by the explanation that those
guarantees lacked credibility, it seems that the Tribunal has given itself the
mandate to evaluate the credibility of even the Security Council's permanent
member states). The ruling handed down on February 24th came into
effect on March 11th. That is the fact and the truth. Any other
speculation is just evasive political maneuvering.

The statements and
opinions of the ICTY Prosecution and the Dutch doctors have been completely
disqualified. The Dutch doctors are going to be criminally prosecuted before the
courts of their country. Ms Del Ponte was so keen to qualify my father as a
guilty even though the trial had not been completed as to insist on his
"suicide" before the autopsy had even taken place. In such circumstances, both
the Dutch doctors and the entire Office of the Prosecutor lack any credibility
for matters concerning my father, from responsibility for the crimes he was
accused of to the circumstances of his death.

It is obvious that
even without poisoning, murder, or anything similar, but with heart failure
which you consider to be a "natural" death that the ICTY and the UN who created
it bears the sole responsibility for my father’s death.

That “court” had
already committed a series of violations against my father. It violated every
rule and regulation known to modern civilization, both East and West. It failed
to even comply with its own statute and rules. It ignored the guaranties given
by permanent members of the UN Security Council, the very organ which created
the ICTY. And finally, it deliberately led my father to his “natural” death.

As if that wasn’t
enough, you produced this grotesque “investigation” which found that “he was not
murdered”! With all this, it is clear that the Organization of United Nations
will have to take the responsibility for the death of former President of
Federative Republic of Yugoslavia and that the ICTY will have to be disbanded,
as I told your deputy four months ago. I do not accept the explanations offered
in your report. I find it visibly tuned to suit the ICTY Prosecutor’s Office,
and most importantly it is obvious that it was produced to relieve the ICTY of
responsibility, not to show the truth or bring justice.

I expect the
superior organs of the Organization of the United Nations to reject your report
and reconsider the legitimacy of ICTY, as well as the behavior and performance
of its staff. I also expect that, for the sake of the integrity and credibility
of OUN, that the ICTY will be brought to end.